Perozzi in ‘tip-top shape’
Bermuda’s Teresa Perozzi says her training regime for Saturday’s fight has been far more rigorous than anything she has been apart of in her ten-plus years of boxing.Perozzi will rest her World Boxing Association (WBA) women’s middleweight title on the line against highly ranked American Tori Nelson while also vying for the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight title on home turf.The ten-round unification championship bout takes place in the Poinciana Ball Room at the Fairmont Southampton Hotel.Perozzi said preparations had been intense with legendary Bermuda fighter Troy Darrell helping out. She has also embarked on a new nutrition diet.“I have tried to maintain a really clean diet, more vegetarian than normal for me and it keeps my energy up when normally I would be preparing to go sleep or relaxing with the family and things of that nature,” she said.“I thought my training with Troy would be in the same realm as the training I have previously done but with him it has been at a much higher level and more intense, so I feel that I am ready to get the fight on the road and win both titles.”Southpaw Perozzi landed the then vacant WBA belt with a split decision win over American Lorissa Rivas in Trinidad last December.She then successfully defended her title with a unanimous points decision over Rivas’ compatriot April Ward on home soil last March.Her pro record currently stands at 9-4-1.Nelson, who goes by the fight name of ‘Sho Nuff’, captured the WIBA middleweight title via a unanimous points decision against veteran Vashon Living in her native Virginia earlier this year, with her record standing at 6-0-1.Although both females will be looking for the same result, Perozzi believes that her experience training with Darrell will pay off.“The whole training regime has been a new experience for me, I have been training three times a day and after doing a whole day’s work I’m still awake and ready to do more even after my child has gone to sleep.“I feel she is in trouble come fight night and I just need to stay focused and committed to the plan that we go in with.”